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Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can: all of them make me laugh.

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To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

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It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize.

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I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

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Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence;Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part.They taught me to express my deep abhorrenceIf I caught...more